FINAL NOTE

Like all groups that do not like wasting time on internet ethics, BakaBT staff reserve the right to make final decisions without further explanation. We enforce fairness based on our own judgement. This site is not a democracy.
If you just received your first ban for pushing things a little too far and would like to be unbanned, the best way to do so is to drop by #bakabt-support, politely explain your point of view in a few lines and put in a request to be unbanned. If you choose to push the issue, insist on an explanation, demand a re-analysis of the situation, or tell us how to do our moderating etc, expect a full ban (on IRC channel, tracker and forums).

Tracker Guidelines

These guidelines exist to protect fair users and to keep BakaBT a happy community.

Do not go against staff members' wishes.

Do not upload your private torrent files (.torrent files that you downloaded when logged in) to other trackers.

Only whitelisted torrent clients/applications may be used. Do not ask for blacklisted clients to be whitelisted.

Stat-hacking/cheating in any form may result in bans with or without warning. That means attempting to modify your data transfer statistics in any way.

No linking to sites/trackers containing blacklisted material.

No posting of "please seed", "please approve this", "when will this be approved", "will seed this", "will download this", "thanks" and other similarly useless comments in the torrent comments page. Users who post such comments will have their accounts warned. Complaints of a release's file size will also not be tolerated. Torrent comments are strictly for comments relating to the torrent and its content (i.e. not a ranting place for you).

When asking for help or support in the support forums, give as much detailed information as you can.

If you're having issues with your torrent client, tell us which client you are using, which torrents you are having problems with, and give us some information about your connection settings, as well as ISP. More information is always welcome.

if you're having issues with playback, tell us what operating system you are using, which video player you are using, what your hardware specifications (CPU, chipset, GPU) are, which video file you are having problems with, and what the problem is (stuttering video? audio/video desync? subtitles not displaying), in detail.

Note that we are not a support forum for generic software/hardware issues (there are better places for that). You may ask about problems you have with other trackers or files you downloaded from elsewhere, but do not be surprised or angry to find that you do not get a reply, or that the thread is locked.

* Only one image allowed
* NO nudity, pornography or linking to pornography (including hentai)
* NO excessively ecchi avatars/signatures (images have to be SFW)
* no advertising of other trackers (especially trackers containing blacklisted material)
* no advertising or scamming in any form
* only four lines of text allowed (one if it's used together with an image signature)
** current limit is 255 characters
* No use of offensive language (rape, fuck, cum, etc.)
* No bashing/hate/racism/etc. in the signatures either

IRC Guidelines

#BakaBT

These guidelines exist to protect the sanity and happiness of IRC users.

No flaming. No spamming. No unsolicited advertising of site/services.

No excessive use of colours. Some colour formatting in IRC scripts is allowed.

Exception: the word "fabulous" may be highlighted only in magenta.

No using capslock as typing cruise control. In other words, no excessive use of capital letters, or other forms of abuse of capital letters (such as random capitalisation).

No discussion of religion/drugs and other disapproved topics.We try to stay liberal, but also have to consider the overall situation when it comes to these topics.A torrent community is not the place for serious discussion of these topics.If you want a serious discussion, find a more appropriate channel.

No use of offensive language (rape, fuck, cum etc) in user nicknames. (This includes names from banned topics and impersonation.)

No WB scripts. IF you really like WBs, type them yourself manually or use a quotable database (such as Chalamius').